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Albrecht Dürer

Nürnberg, 1471 - Nürnberg, 1528

Knight, Death and Devil

Date 1513
Materials and Techniques engraving
Size(cm) 24.6 x 19.0
Standard ref. Bartsch 98; Hollstein 74; Strauss 71; Meder 74; Schoch I 69
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1998-0053

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1998.

Exhibition History

2000
Dance Macabre: from the late Medieval Times to the Present, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 October 2000 - 3 December 2000, cat. no. 113
2010
Albrecht Dürer: Religion/Portraits/Nature, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 26 October 2010 - 16 January 2011, cat. no. 155
2014
Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 8 April 2014 - 15 June 2014, cat. no. 22
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 28 January-16 April, cat. no. 17, col. repr.
2019
The Habsburg Dynasty: 600 Years of Imperial Collections: 150 Years Friendship Austria-Japan, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 19 October 2019 - 26 January 2020, cat. no. 38
2023
Villains in the Frame, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 June 2023 - 3 September 2023, cat. no. 10

Bibliography

1955
Panofsky, Erwin. The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. 4th ed., Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1955, pp. 152-154, fig. 207.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: Master Printmaker (exh. cat.). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1971, pp. 210-214.
2000
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 33 (April 1998-March 1999), 2000, List of New Acquisitions. p. 47.
2009
Hirakawa, Kayo. The Pictorialization of Dürer's Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 94-95.
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation (exh. cat.). Messling, Guido; Shinfuji Atsushi, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2016, pp. 70-71, 280, cat. no. 17, col. repr.
2019
The Habsburg Dynasty: 600 Years of Imperial Collections: 150 Years Friendship Austria-Japan (exh. cat.). Del Torre Scheuch, Francesca; Nakada, Asuka, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2019, pp. 110-111, cat. no. 38, col. repr.

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